TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benavides,O.Hugo
TI  - Drugs, thugs, and divas: telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America 
SN  - 9780292717121
AV  - PN1992 B456 D 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Television soap operas
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Drugs in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
N1  - Melodrama as ambiguous signifier: Latin American telenovelas and Narco-dramas -- Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic unveiling of colonial desire -- Producing the global west through latin tales of seduction and enby -- Karen's seduction: the racial politics of appropriate dinner guests -- A mother's wrath and the complex disjuncturing of class -- Being narco: the evolution of a continental sensibility -- Saintly figures and icons: the migration of a continental dream -- La reina del sur: Gender, racial, and national contestations of regional identity -- Sex, drugs, and cumbia: the hybrid nature of culture -- Conclusion: the postcolonial politics of melodrama -- Ugly Betty; HKBU library; YT2025 M08
ER  -